Two new dictionaries presented
6. 4. 2016 | 2333 visits
Authors, linguists and their guests were in a celebratory and joyful mood at the presentation of two noteworthy dictionaries in Bratislava on Wednesday, 6 April. Language being an attribute of the cultural character of a nation, the Veda publishing company has published a third volume of the Dictionary of the Contemporary Slovak Language (M-N), as well as the first etymological dictionary, under the title of the Concise Etymological Dictionary of the Slovak Language.
In the speeches given by Prof. Slavomír Ondrejovič, the President of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) Ľudovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Dr Miroslav Morovics, a member of the Presidium of the SAS, as well as the authors of the two dictionaries, a lot of thanks and esteem were heard for patient and extensive work. The Dictionary of the Contemporary Slovak Language (M-N) was the result of work by a team of authors and it contains more than 16,000 entries. "In terms of genre, it is a monolingual dictionary, printed in medium type. However, in Slovakia we could say it is a large-print dictionary," said Dr Alexandra Jarošová, the editor-in-chief of the Dictionary. She mentioned the enthusiasm of all the co-authors and co-workers, as well as the precision with which they edited all the words and phrases. Writer Dušan Dušek and actor Dušan Jamrich gave the Dictionary a symbolic launch into the world with charm, ardour and comments both high-minded and good-humoured.
Words such as "kutňa" (cowl), "kvaka" (turnip, swede), "mrľa" (pinworm), "pajtáš" (companion), "sliz" (slime) and other more than 10,000 entries can be found, along with more than 10,000 other entries, in the Concise Etymological Dictionary of the Slovak Language, the first Slovak dictionary explaining the origins of Slovak words. Dr Ľubor Králik, its author, defines it as a work for both ordinary people and academics, with the main emphasis on contemporary vocabulary. However, he pointed out that some words which now belong to the Slovak language come from the Pre-Slavic period as long ago as the 10th century BC. The publication of the first dictionary of this type in the Slovak Republic repays a debt to the Slovak language and, at the same time, is an incentive to carry out further in-depth research into the etymology of the language. Well-known linguists Prof. Pavol Žigo, from the Philosophical Faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava, and Prof. Ľubomír Kralčák, from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra, were the book's "godfathers" at its "baptism". Both of them highlighted the importance and uniqueness of the Dictionary.
Photo: Vladimír Šimíček
In the speeches given by Prof. Slavomír Ondrejovič, the President of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) Ľudovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Dr Miroslav Morovics, a member of the Presidium of the SAS, as well as the authors of the two dictionaries, a lot of thanks and esteem were heard for patient and extensive work. The Dictionary of the Contemporary Slovak Language (M-N) was the result of work by a team of authors and it contains more than 16,000 entries. "In terms of genre, it is a monolingual dictionary, printed in medium type. However, in Slovakia we could say it is a large-print dictionary," said Dr Alexandra Jarošová, the editor-in-chief of the Dictionary. She mentioned the enthusiasm of all the co-authors and co-workers, as well as the precision with which they edited all the words and phrases. Writer Dušan Dušek and actor Dušan Jamrich gave the Dictionary a symbolic launch into the world with charm, ardour and comments both high-minded and good-humoured.
Words such as "kutňa" (cowl), "kvaka" (turnip, swede), "mrľa" (pinworm), "pajtáš" (companion), "sliz" (slime) and other more than 10,000 entries can be found, along with more than 10,000 other entries, in the Concise Etymological Dictionary of the Slovak Language, the first Slovak dictionary explaining the origins of Slovak words. Dr Ľubor Králik, its author, defines it as a work for both ordinary people and academics, with the main emphasis on contemporary vocabulary. However, he pointed out that some words which now belong to the Slovak language come from the Pre-Slavic period as long ago as the 10th century BC. The publication of the first dictionary of this type in the Slovak Republic repays a debt to the Slovak language and, at the same time, is an incentive to carry out further in-depth research into the etymology of the language. Well-known linguists Prof. Pavol Žigo, from the Philosophical Faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava, and Prof. Ľubomír Kralčák, from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra, were the book's "godfathers" at its "baptism". Both of them highlighted the importance and uniqueness of the Dictionary.
Photo: Vladimír Šimíček